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Re: Longest range pirate attack on Crude Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 11:40:20 AM »
Now, i imagine i change my prof and become a pirate.
I'll take such an open outboarder skiff, fill up petrol and take sufficient water and provisions for me and my "colleagues" and sail out to such a position "in the middle of the nowhere"
Does that seem realistic, somehow ? I'd say: not.
Would they sit out there, in their open skiff, without shelter, without radar etc pp, waiting for the odd ship passing by ? I'd say: not.
So, how comes, that such a ship is being attacked out there ?
Answer: knowledge. They'd know who'd be where and when.
To me that sounds more realistic.
Now - we've had an old lady, heading for the beaches, merely crawling thru these pirate infested waters recently. Rather say: some power assisted drifting. Nobody cared at all. Assume they knew beforehad, what was coming, and what would have been coming, had they captured her:
the answer might have been: allright, keep her....

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Re: Longest range pirate attack on Crude Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 02:36:04 PM »
Yep, the famous mysterious motherships. Hard to believe that the multinational Navy is unable to trace same and stop their "work" .

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Re: Longest range pirate attack on Crude Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2009, 10:40:16 AM »
EU NAVFOR French warship Floreal tracks down Pirate attack group

http://www.eunavfor.eu/2009/11/eu-navfor-french-warship-floreal-tracks-down-pirate-attack-group/

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Re: Longest range pirate attack on Crude Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2009, 12:33:56 PM »
Already?????They are not sleeping anymore?How many vessels are attacked by this group?I still can't understand what is going on in these waters......
Send the motherships on the ground of the sea and the somalian pirates can't attack vessels 1000 nautical miles from the somalian coast!!!!!!

 

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